Skid.



PATENTED MAR.'20,419O6.

J. 0. MARKS.

' SKID.

urmoulou FILED JUNE-3.1906.

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, SKID.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed June 3, 1905. Serial No. 268,657.

Be it known that I, JosEPH O. MARKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Birmingham, in the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama, have invented new and useful Improvements in Skids, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved skid especially adapted for handling barrels, kegs, and the like.

My primary object is to produce a skid that will be particularly useful in distilleries and wholesale and other commercial houses where barrels are to be handled in that it embodies a light durable construction and is provided on each of its main members with a strong metallic strip having a series of short spurs arranged throughout so much of their length as will be engaged by the barrel or keg in handling the same for the purpose of preventing the barrel from slipping back when it is being elevated to racks in storing or loaded into wagons in shipping or transporting, thus enabling one man to roll a barrel of whisky or other heavy weight to the desired height with very considerable ease.

My invention further consists in a minor degree in embodying in the skid a construction that will permit the lateral adjustment of its main members for the obvious purpose of adapting it for use in handling barrels and kegs of various sizes.

I am aware that it is not new to provide bars used as skids with metallic or roughened surfaces; but, so-far as I am aware, I am the first to provide a concrete skid with means for laterally adjusting the same and with spaced-apart spurs producing a neat compact skid readily movable and in which its side members do not have to be separately handled in using the same With the above objects in view and others that will become apparent in the course of the following description my improved skid will now be described in detail, and the points of novelty will be set forth in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a per-- spective view of the skid constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is also a perspective view looking at the under side of the skid and Fig. 3 is a plan View of the skid, showing in dotted lines one widened or adjusted position.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates two strong wooden bars which are inclined at their lower ends, as indicated-by I' the numeral 2, and pointed, as at 3,;presentingtwo inclined oppositely-disposed surfaces 4 and 5, the bars being identical in'shape.

f The numeral 6 designates two strips or flat bars of iron provided throughout the greater part of their length with a series of short pointed studs or spurs 7, suitably spaced apart and which are engaged by the barrel or keg when the skid is used to revent the slipping back of said barrel or keg in elevating the same to the desired height. The lower ends of these strips are bent sharply backward, as shown at 8, and are bolted at their lower ends to the wooden bars 1, thus form' ing a metallic bearing-surface at the lower end of the skid members. The forward or upper ends of the metallic strips are ex tended a short distance beyond the wooden skid members, as shown at 9, and are provided with hooks 10 for engagement with the edge of the rack or the tail-gate of the wagon, and a short distance below the hooks 10 are provided (one upon each strip) two lugs 11 to prevent the skid from moving upwardly when the barrel is being raised thereon. Integral with the upper ends of the metallic strips are short metallic strips 12, which extend under and embrace the upper ends of the wooden skid members, and these strips are bolted to the under side of said skid members by means of bolts 13. These bolts, together with the ones employed at the lower end of the skid, serve to hold the metallic strips firmly secured to the wooden skid members. Connecting the skid members are a series of metallic rods or crossbars- 14, which may be rigidly-secured to one of the skid members and have their other ends extended through the opposite skid member, and said rods are provided on either side of one of the skid members with nuts and washers, the nuts being adapted to be loosened to permit the lateral adjustment of the skid members and tightened to hold said members in adjusted position. 1

From the foregoing description it will be seen that a very compact and durable device is produced presenting advantages heretofore unknown in devices of this character both as to simplicity, utility, and capacity for meeting requirements very frequently arising where the use of skids is necessary.

I claim 1. A skid comprising two oppositely-disposed members, suitably spaced apart and secured together, said members being provided with metallic stri s with their upper ends extended beyond t e main skid members and provided with hooks for the purpose set forth, and lugs below said hooks, whereby the skid is prevented from moving upward when in use, the said strips being also provided with a series of short spurs or studs suitably spaced apart and adapted to be engaged by the barrel or other object being elevated, to prevent the same from slipping, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A skid comprising two oppositely-disposed main members suitably spaced apart, and so held together that the main members skid members and lugs below said hooks, all

substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH C. MARKS. Witnesses:

W. T. HILL, V. S. LOVENTHAL. 

